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But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.

Boris Johnson

This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope…
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Doubt Moments Self
He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.
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Decision Double Family Himself Lost
He thinks of himself as a gigantic keystone in the arch, with all the lesser stones logically induced to support his position. He has a kind of semi-ideology to go with it – a leftish Toryism: imperialist, romantic, but on the side of the working man.
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Ideology Lesser Logically Position
I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.
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Him Love Myself Passion Run
Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
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Book People Play Watch
The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.
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Cities Earth Volunteer
Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.
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Age Character Darkness Humanity
It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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Fast Myself Writing
I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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Interest Myself Pure Support
The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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Country Olympics People Scales
The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
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Empty Surround Vast
This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.
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Benefits Chance Economy
Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.
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I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.
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People Risk Thinking
Some people think that it [Brexit] is the end of the world. It’s not. On the contrary, it’s a massive opportunity for this country.
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Country Himself Massive Opportunity People Thinking
I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap-dancing, and other related and vital subjects
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Dance Documentary People Respect War World

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